Category: Features

Municipal elections

Whenever I am in Patna I cannot forget the love and affection and overwhelming hospitality of all my hosts and hostesses since 1983, when I first made a

Les Mauriciens seront appelés aux urnes dans le cadre des élections municipales le week-end prochain. 

Herbicides are poisonous chemicals used to kill unwanted plants and weeds. 

The local branch of the Life Insurance Corporation of India, a company which has been conducting long-term insurance activity in Mauritius for decades, contributed this week a sum

Seeing both his grandmothers struggling to move around with great difficulty and suffering in their old age, a young man, originally from Mombasa in Kenya, Aliasgar Morbi, was

“You walk for days among trees and among stones. Rarely does the eye light on a thing, and then only when it has recognised that thing as the

That BBC documentary had drawn a pensive smile from me. It revealed that the Indo-Arabic numerals would have been more complicated to all of us had the zero

Well, does it? Yes? No? But we do isn’t it? Or do we?

Our rate of economic growth these days is not quite reassuring. Moody’s has preferred to pick up the rate of 3.8% and not go for the higher forecasts

Emancipation of Slaves

When the government of l’Alliance Lepep came to power late last year, Kailash Purryag was President of the Republic.

Under the title ‘The Presidency: Respect the Constitution’ on 23 January 2015 this column wrote:

By Satyendra Peerthum

The mission of the University of Mauritius in the 21st Century is to disseminate and to create knowledge and to engage with society. An increase in the number